DASCA's eminence as the developer of the world's most definitive credentials for marking excellence in the Big Data profession serves very well all stakeholders – Big Data tech-stables, Big Data professionals, Big Data training outfits, as well as business schools and universities breeding higher–grade professional talents.

Available across 183 countries, DASCA certification exams are built on 5th generation TEI technologies delivered through state-of-the art QTI-PCI aligned test engines by ExamStrong, the world's largest exam-delivery ecosystem specializing in highest-stake certification exams of world's leading 3rd party standards and credentialing bodies.

Partnering DASCA implies building powerful real–time bridges with the state-of-the-art in Data Science thought and practice worldwide, and profiting in business through world-class Big Data standards, certifications, and knowledge networks.

Big Data technology stables, Big Data consulting outfits, IT training companies, leading universities, business schools, higher education institutions, and government ICT academies – all are adding to the rapidly swelling DASCA worldwide network. And if your organization is yet to ally with DASCA, well, then just start the process now! We'll be privileged to have you join in.

Big Data Engineering Certifications

DASCA Big Data Engineering Certifications are major international qualifications today for software engineers and programmers aspiring to enter or grow in the high–demand Big Data development and engineering profession.

Overview

The Big Data Engineer track of Data Science Council of America addresses credentialing requirements of trained professionals who specialize in writing codes and programs for Big Data applications and work on designing, developing, and engineering Big Data software and platforms.

REGISTER NOW FOR THE ALL NEW ABDE™ and SBDE™

Registrations are open now for the spanking new ABDE™ and SBDE™ version marked to the updated DASCA-DSBoK™ Ver 11-4.4.

The Big Data Engineer Track

Certifications in this Track

DASCA offers two levels of global certification programs in this track: the Associate Big Data Engineer (ABDE™) Credential sharply targeted at graduating tech–school engineering students readying for starting their careers in software engineering with the Big Data industry; and the Senior Big Data Engineer (SBDE™) Credential, which is designed for experienced programmers and software engineers who intend to move into the Big Data space or want to grow faster in their career. The ABDE™ and SBDE™ Credentials are awarded to those applicants who have successfully cleared the 100–minutes DASCA online examinations for these certifications, configured around the DASCA Essential Knowledge Framework. These examinations are managed and delivered entirely by DASCA across 183 countries.

Start your global Big Data engineering/ development career with this most powerful international certification

Why the ABDE™ and the SBDE™

Best–in–Breed Big Data Developers and Engineers

Promising performance–assuring exposures to a compelling breadth of open–source and proprietary Big Data platforms, technologies, and environments, the DASCA–Associate Big Data Developers and Engineers come successfully tested for their level–appropriate understanding and knowledge of the entire spectrum of areas that decide their promise and potential for designing, engineering, and developing a complex 21st century Big Data Management System. Their fundamentals on Information Technology as well as Software Designing, Data Structures, Programming, and Analytical Abilities also stand successfully examined and found duly informed by their knowledge of the latest concepts, principles, methods, tools, and techniques deployed in Big Data management today.

Proving Knowledge of Big Data Tools and Platforms

These DASCA Credential-holders exhibit level–appropriate, DASCA-EKF™–calibrated knowledge of popular Big Data platforms, including Hadoop and Spark. They have also tested successful for their diverse exposure to a cross-section of all popular Big Data distributions like Hortonworks and Cloudera. Not the least, the DASCA credentialed Big Data Developers and Engineers display exam–tested knowledge of aspects related to operating proprietary as well as open–source developer tools like HBase, Hive, Pig, and HiveQL, among others. The candidacy norms for the two ensure that all credential-holders exhibit at least a working knowledge of statistics at the time of applying to DASCA for the credential.

Proving Knowledge of Big Data Programming and Coding

Well–equipped with a complete understanding of their roles, responsibilities, and the challenges of their profession, DASCA–Associate Big Data Developers and Engineers show level–appropriate proficiencies in back–end OOPS programming as well as knowledge of how to write high–performance, reliable, and maintainable codes and programs for clustered scale–out data processing on commonly used Big Data platforms.

The DASCA Big Edge for Big Data Engineers

Designed as Employability–Enhancers

The ABDE™ and SBDE™ Credentials validate the promise and potential of software professionals to enter, perform, and grow in the Big Data space and perform effectively as Big Data Developers and Engineers in a rapidly evolving and changing technology landscape.

Sharply Employer–Focused

The ABDE™ and SBDE™ Credentials have robust, research–backed structures built after rigorous research on Big Data industry trends. They focus on validating knowledge and proficiency in areas that impact performance of developers and engineers most critically.

3rd Party Recognition, Cross–Platform Relevance

DASCA is entirely an independent certification body and not a technology developer or an owner of a proprietary Big Data platform. This makes ABDE™ and SBDE™ the world’s first neutral, pan–platform and BoEK™–centered globally recognized big data credentials.

Availability & Convenience

The ABDE™ and SBDE™ Credentials are now available worldwide and registrations can be made online. While the certification examinations can be taken across 183 countries around the world, Wiley–produced official DASCA examination preparation material is provided at the time of registration to all applicants at no extra costs.

International Acceptance, Recognition, & Relevance

Although the highest levels of research and validation rigor marked the development of the ABDE™ and SBDE™ Credentials into truly universal qualifications, the process of accreditation by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and/or the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) is also due to commence.

Big Data Engineer Certifications

The Big Data Engineer track of Data Science Council of America addresses credentialing requirements of trained professionals who specialize in designing Big Data applications and in writing codes and programs for them.

The Data Science Council of America (DASCA) is an independent, third–party, international credentialing and certification organization for Big Data and Data Science professionals, and has no interests whatsoever, vested in the development, marketing or promotion of any platform, technology, or tool related to Data Science applications. DASCA validates capabilities and potential of individuals for excelling in critical Data Science professions including Big Data Analytics and Big Data Engineering. DASCA advented the world's first and the most powerful exercise ever to aggregate, assess, validate, refine, classify, optimize, standardize, and model the generics of professional knowledge prerequisites for designers, managers, developers, and technologists working in the Data Science space. DASCA certification programs for aspiring and working Big Data and Data Science professionals are fleshed on the world's first vendor–neutral standards – the five–pronged DASCA Essential Knowledge Framework (EKF™), which is a constantly evolving concept, and hence does not purport to be complete or absolutely perfect at any point in time. Though, the EKF™ and all DASCA certifications constantly aim at assisting professionals in exceling consistently in their jobs, there are no specific guarantees of success or profit for any user of these concepts, products or services. DASCA and/or its partner institutions reserve the rights to cancel, modify and revise timetables, schedules, calendars, fee-structure, course-modules, assessment and delivery structures of any program, either offered independently by DASCA or jointly with partner institutions, without prior notice to prospective and registered program participants. DASCA and its collaborating institutions reserve the rights of admission or acceptance of applicants into certification and executive education programs offered by them. DASCA & DASCA Partner organizations do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in their programs and activities.

All DASCA business, knowledge, operations and backend processes related to the management of customer relationships, customer-support, credentialing logistics, partner-network, and invoicing are exclusively handled by the globally distributed offices of CredForce, the worldwide credentialing services leader. DASCA can remove or replace at any point in time, any of its vendors, associates or partners found underperforming, or engaged in unethical business practices to preserve the interests of its customers and maintain the standards of its services to the highest of levels as expected. CredForce has no role to play in certification award decisions of the Data Science Council of America. Individuals or organizations deciding to deal with or do business with DASCA are assumed to have read and agreed to these facts pertaining to DASCA services, practices and policies. All queries may be directed to info@dasca.org